East Fallowfield Elementary School

Principal: Melissa Willis - willism@casdschools.org

Guidance: Lynn Stover - stoverl@casdschools.org

Secretary: Jaclyn Bernardo - bernardoj@casdschools.org

Attendance - Sam Frost - efattendance@casdschools.org

The mission of the Coatesville Area School District, rich in diversity, and committed to excellence, is to create innovative educational experiences, which are funded by the taxpayers, supported by the community, delivered by dedicated teachers and administrators, to ensure all students will become responsible, contributing global citizens.

Email: willism@casdschools.org

Website: https://www.casdschools.org/eastfallowfield

Location: 2254 Strasburg Road, Coatesville, PA, USA

Phone: 610-383-3765

Twitter: @CASDEFallowfld

12/11 - 12/13 - Holiday Shop

12/12 - Instrumental Concert at CAIHS, 7 pm

12/13 - Report Cards live on Home Access

12/13 - Angel Tree Drop Off

12/13 - Candy Gram orders are due

12/13 - Dine & Donate: Tastebudz on 82

12/18 - Holiday Spirit Week: Pajama Day

12/19 - Holiday Spirit Week: Candy Cane Day

12/20 - Holiday Spirit Week: Crazy Hat & Crazy Sock Day

12/20 - Early Dismissal Day, 12:30 pm

12/21 - Holiday Spirit Week: Grinch Day

12/22 - Holiday Spirit Week: Ugly Sweater Day

12/25 - 1/1 - Winter Break

1/2 - Return to School

We want to send a huge Big East congratulations to Miss Alyssa Lombardo who got married this weekend! Miss Lombardo will be changing her name to Mrs. Gualtieri so if you hear the new name, you know who our students are referring to! Best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Gualtieri!

For those of you who know our amazing daytime custodian, Ms. Marilyn, you know that she loves the holiday season. We wanted to thank Ms. Marilyn and her family for making the most adorable holiday decorations to adorn our front lobby. Ms. Marilyn, her husband and two daughters spent time over the weekend creating the decorations, which brought a lot of smiles when students entered the building on Monday. Thank you, Ms. Marilyn for always going above and beyond for our school!

We have Good News Club this week on 12/14. This will be the last group meeting of 2023. The club will resume after winter break.

On Saturday evening, our chorus members attended and performed at the East Fallowfield Township Tree lighting. In addition to the performance, the tree was decorated with ornaments made by our students! Thank you to Ms. Willgruber for facilitating the ornament making in art class! A huge thank you to Mrs. Mullen for preparing and organizing our chorus members on a Saturday night for this continued community partnership event.

East Fallowfield's winter choral concert was held last Thursday, December 7th at 7:00 pm in our gymnasium. Earlier that day, the chorus put on a school performance and we had a very special visitor. Our Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Cathy Van Vooren was in attendance!

Our student performers put on a great show for a packed house!! Congratulations to our choral director, Mrs. April Mullen, for putting together an amazing show! We are all feeling ready for the holidays after that performance! We look forward to seeing the chorus perform again in the Spring.

On Tuesday, East Fallowfield held our annual spelling bee. We are so very proud of all of our contestants who worked so hard to represent their class and grade levels. We also want to thank three of our retired EF teachers, Mrs. Buohl, Mrs. Popovich and Mrs. Chidester, who served as our spelling bee judges. Lastly, a huge shout out to our amazing Reading Specialist, Mrs. DiSands for doing such a great job in organizing the event.

It was a close race at every grade level, but listed here are this year's winners! These students will move on to the district spelling bee at Rainbow Elementary in January.

Third grade winners: 1st place - Jayceon Navarro, 2nd place - Conner Fink, Alternate: Sophie Walker

Fourth grade winners: 1st place - Malachi Day, 2nd place - Valli Smith, Alternate: Brock Herod

Fifth grade winners: 1st place - Aiden Phillips, 2nd place - Anaselis Paulino, Alternate: Michayla McLimans

Last week, third grade students were in for quite an adventure; they had to save a tiger! In their Project Lead the Way curriculum, students joined the characters Angelina, Mylo, and Suzi on a field trip to the zoo and were faced with the design problem of how to rescue a trapped tiger. Students then applied their knowledge of forces to devise a way to rescue a heavy zoo animal while keeping it safe throughout the process. Throughout the unit, students explored simple machines such as wheels and axles, levers, inclined planes, and more. They also investigated the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Last week our fifth graders traveled to the People's Light Theater for a performance of A Christmas Carol. Our students and teachers enjoyed the show and our students were following all of our Big East expectations of S.O.A.R. Prior to the field trip, a representative came out to meet with our 5th graders to prepare them for the show. We are thankful for our continued partnership with People's Light.

The December PTO Meeting is cancelled. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, January 9, 2024.

There are many worthwhile causes this time of year, but if you have any interest in helping the angels on EF’s tree, we would love you for it. ❤️

If you can’t sponsor a student, please consider sharing this post. Share it everywhere!

Link: https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/30E0E4CAFAE22A4F85-46254016-efes

Too busy to shop but want to help? Venmo us @ EastFallowfieldPTO! We cover gifts for children who aren’t chosen or are last minute additions and every penny helps!

Details: wrapped donations with tags can be dropped off throughout the week of December 13-15 or on the evening of Wednesday, December 13 from 4-6pm.

Have questions? Email Mrs. Tori Kline at klivev@casdschools.org.

Candy gram order forms went home last week. Orders are due by Wednesday, December 13th.

The Holiday Shoppe will be at East Fallowfield December 11th, 12th and 13th. Order forms are going home with students today! Happy shopping!

Our newest PTO fundraiser couldn't be any easier! As you purchase gift cards as holiday presents, please purchase them through our Raise Right and East Fallowfield earns money. Use the special enrollment code for our school when you purchase your gift cards or scan the QR code to get started.

Use the link: https://www.rasieright.com/enroll?enrollCode=H2MUW7X2CFSL

Enrollment Code: H2MUW7X2CFSL

Chromebooks

• Please be sure to send your child back to school with their district-issued Chromebook and charger if they took it home for the summer.
• If your child turned in their Chromebook at the end of the year, they will be distributed within the first few days of school.
• If your child is in kindergarten or new to the district, laptops will be distributed within the first weeks of school.
• Technology Insurance Fees (TIF) can be made via RevTrak on the school district’s website: https://coatesvillearea.revtrak.net/casd-technology/.
• Should you have any technology concerns please contact our Technology Department at ithelpdesk@casdschools.org.

The district is continuing our contract with A Child’s Place as our before and after care provider. Please see the attached flyer below for information about rates and how to enroll your child. We are happy to announce that we will have both before and after care at East Fallowfield this year!